TOOLS AND TECH: THE JEWELLER’S LATEST MUST-HAVES

In an uphill battle in opposition to reasonably-priced offshore manufacturing, the right gear can assist bench jewellers and stores to compete through improving the first-rate, velocity and performance in their work and services, boosting margins in the method.

Anthony Nowlan, director of jewelry era organization Evotech Pacific, believes there are many technological improvements for jewellers to be excited about, especially in which new offerings are worried.

“We have just released new software program applications to assist production and retail jewellers – Evotech Marketplace and the Evotech Vendor Store,” he says.

“The Evotech Marketplace enables retail jewellers to add a quick in their necessities, such as snap shots and sketches. The brief can then be disbursed to registered designers who can view it and offer a quote. Registration to the marketplace is loose for both stores and architects,” he provides.

Nowlan factors to the Evotech Vendor Store as an online income channel for jewellers who want an straight forward e-trade answer.

“The Evotech Vendor Store is an e-trade website for jewellers who don’t have a internet site or don’t have an e-trade facility on their sites,” he says. “Retailers can sign in their commercial enterprise names and upload snap shots of their pieces then use the Vendor keep to sell these pieces.”

Rapid Casting is some other employer that specialize in provider innovation.

“We have delivered the first automated online ordering and tracking device for CAD/CAM and casting order placement,” production manager Ben Farago says.

“Our gadget presents customers with live quoting and an internet gallery of their previous jobs for smooth re-ordering. We additionally provide the fastest overnight printing and casting with door-to-door delivery and online order monitoring.”

Farago believes provider innovation provides huge advantages to retailers, boosting performance and client retention: “By streamlining get admission to to those offerings, we’ve created opportunities for jewellers to improve their productivity and make their businesses extra aware of patron wishes.”

Another innovation from Rapid Casting is net-primarily based portal LiveDesign.

“LiveDesign permits for interactive ordering and customisation of conventional style engagement jewelry and to generate 3-d fashions in real-time,” Farago notes. “We felt we have been solving the problem of producing trendy designs to match purchaser desires flawlessly, as opposed to trying to remodel a stock piece.”

Chris Botha is the operations manager of Pallion’s jewellery department. He explains how his enterprise’s ‘expertise repository’ will make existence less difficult for jewellers.

“Technology has added quicker and smarter methods to derive the beginning factor of manufacturing, inside the guise of CAD and CAM advancements, but builders of generation have unnoticed a critical component: the art of version making – the way to make a jeweller’s design work flawlessly for casting.

“We will offer this know-how in diverse unfastened-to-get admission to codecs, including web platforms, mobile apps and CAD plugins, wherein our teams will address commonplace routine troubles and proportion the extensive expertise they own. This will help jewellers end up higher users of the era,” he adds.